How to have commas in Cookies (HttpWebRequest)?

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

2 Nov 2005 3:03 PM

kingkong88

In the Cookie class that is used with the HttpWebRequest class, commas
are not permitted in the Value property of a Cookie object. This looks
like unusually restrictive as I know of many cookies out there that
contain commas (eg Vignette URLs), and most other programming models
allow commas.

Is there a way to overcome this in .NET Framework 1.1?

Thanks.

2 Nov 2005 10:24 PM

Rob Schieber

kingkon***@gmail.com wrote:

> In the Cookie class that is used with the HttpWebRequest class, commas
> are not permitted in the Value property of a Cookie object. This looks
> like unusually restrictive as I know of many cookies out there that
> contain commas (eg Vignette URLs), and most other programming models
> allow commas.
>
> Is there a way to overcome this in .NET Framework 1.1?
>
> Thanks.
>

Have you tried urlencoding the commas?

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Rob Schieber

3 Nov 2005 1:28 AM

kingkong88

Thanks. But do web servers URLdecode for cookies?

I tried URLencoding it, and the response from the web server remains
URLencoded.

3 Nov 2005 2:00 AM

kingkong88

On an IIS, I read the posted cookie on the server side and it does come
out URL decoded. Thanks.